Distributed Multidisciplinary Optimization and Collaborative Process Development Using RCE

Boden, Brigitte; Flink, Jan; Mischke, Robert; Schaffert, Kathrin; Weinert, Alexander; Wohlan, Annika; Ilić, Časlav; Wunderlich, Tobias; Liersch, Carsten M.; Goertz, Stefan; Ciampa, Pier Davide; Moerland, Erwin

doi:10.2514/6.2019-2989

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“…DLR's Remote Component Environment (RCE) [15] is an open-source software environment for defining and executing workflows containing distributed simulation tools by integrating them into a peer-to-peer network. The following description has been taken from the related publication by the main developers, Boden et al [15].…”

Section: Rce Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Model Based Automatic Control Design for the T-FLEX Demonstrator Using RCE Environment

Takarics¹,

Patartics²,

Luspay³

et al. 2023

AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum

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The main goal of the paper is to develop automatic control design methods for flexible aircraft. The motivation for the research is that such automatic control generation enables the inclusion of the control design algorithms into the multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) of aircraft design. In such an extended MDO framework, called co-design, the sizing, structural dynamics, aerodynamics and the controllers of the aircraft are optimized in one single step. This way control technologies can be included early-on in the preliminary design stage of aircraft design. Since the control design is model based, first a control oriented aeroservoelastic model needs to be developed. The modeling is done via the bottom-up modelling approach. The model generation also needs to be automatic due to parameter changes resulting from the MDO process. The research focuses on flexible aircraft, therefore, the control algorithms include baseline, manoeuvre load alleviation, gust load alleviation and flutter suppression controllers. All of these algorithms needs to be developed in such way that they can automatically executed in the MDO process. The overall MDO framework is based on the Remote Component Environment (RCE) environment and the aircraft investigated is the T-Flex demonstrator of the FLIPASED project. The paper presents the main concepts of the modeling and control synthesis, analysis for the above mentioned four controllers and the most important aspects of integrating such automatic control design methods into the RCE environment.

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“…In addition to the control synthesis, performance and robustness analysis of the resulting controllers needs to be carried out in an automated fashion as well. The automatic control design and analysis is implemented in the Remote Component Environment (RCE) environment [15].…”

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Model Based Automatic Control Design for the T-FLEX Demonstrator Using RCE Environment

Takarics¹,

Patartics²,

Luspay³

et al. 2023

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“…The RCE software package, freely distributed under open-source license, has already proven its worth outside DLR (especially in the field of unconventional aircraft design) for designing, analyzing and optimizing complex systems.Within the EU-funded AGILE project (Aircraft 3rd Generation MDO for Innovative Collaboration of Heterogeneous Teams of Experts), for example, the integration software RCE has been used in an international consortium, comprising 19 partners from Europe, Canada and Russia, with the objective to collaboratively develop optimized aircraft of high complexity [38]. A selection of representative projects is provided by [37,39]. [36] which facilitates cross-company collaboration without jeopardizing intellectual property (right).…”

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A Collaborative Approach for an Integrated Modeling of Urban Air Transportation Systems

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The current push in automation, communication, and electrical energy storage technologies has the potential to lift urban mobility into the sky. As several urban air mobility (UAM) concepts are conceivable, all relevant physical effects as well as mutual interrelations of the UAM system have to be addressed and evaluated at a sufficient level of fidelity before implementation. Therefore, a collaborative system of systems modeling approach for UAM is presented. To quickly identify physical effects and cross-disciplinary influences of UAM, a pool of low-fidelity physical analysis components is developed and integrated into the Remote Component Environment (RCE) workflow engine. This includes, i. a., the disciplines of demand forecast, trajectory, vertiport, and cost modeling as well as air traffic flow and capacity management. The definition and clarification of technical interfaces require intensive cooperation between specialists with different areas of expertise. To reduce this communication effort, the Common Parametric Aircraft Configuration Schema (CPACS) is adapted and used as central data exchange format. The UAM system module is initially applied for a 24-hour simulation of three generic networks in Hamburg City. After understanding the basic system-level behavior, higher level analysis components and feedback loops must be integrated in the UAM system module for evaluation and optimization of explicit operating concepts.

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“…It is a flexible concept design toolset being developed at DLR since 2005, connecting analysis tools from different disciplines and the corresponding experts at the different DLR sites in Germany. Recent applications of the system can be found in [18][19][20].…”

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Design studies and multi-disciplinary assessment of agile and highly swept flying wing configurations

Liersch¹,

Schütte²,

Siggel

et al. 2020

CEAS Aeronaut J

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This article belongs to a series of publications on the design and assessment of the MULDICON UCAV configuration. MULDICON is a 53° swept flying wing combat aircraft concept, investigated in a common effort between the DLR research project Mephisto and the NATO STO Research Task Group AVT-251. This article focuses on the development of the overall concept starting from its predecessor, the SACCON configuration, and the requirements which had been defined for the MULDICON design task. A second focus is placed on the investigation of the vortex-dominated flow topology arising around such a configuration and its sensitivity to specific geometric changes. Furthermore, the article briefly introduces the DLR conceptual aircraft design system and the extensions which have been developed for improving its capabilities for UCAV assessment. Finally, an industrial view on the MULDICON design task is provided, as well as a conclusion of the Mephisto results and an outlook upon further work.

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Distributed Multidisciplinary Optimization and Collaborative Process Development Using RCE

Cited by 8 publications

References 23 publications

Model Based Automatic Control Design for the T-FLEX Demonstrator Using RCE Environment

Model Based Automatic Control Design for the T-FLEX Demonstrator Using RCE Environment

A Collaborative Approach for an Integrated Modeling of Urban Air Transportation Systems

Design studies and multi-disciplinary assessment of agile and highly swept flying wing configurations

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